A friend to all is a friend to none.
- Aristotle
Related topics: Friendship Relationship
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle 
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
- Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
- Aristotle
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated
as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
- Maya Angelou
Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Lord, grant comfort, joy and health
to those I call friend,
to those I call enemy,
and to those I have cursed by my indifference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which
it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
- Thomas Jefferson
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance,
chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today,
and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us
to be what we know we could be.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A true friend is the one who
walks in when others walk out.
- Walter Winchell
He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.
- Thomas Fuller
The only thing to do is to hug one's friend tight and do one's job.
- Edith Wharton
A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Donna Roberts
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend,
but it requires a very fine nature
to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
A friend is one who walks in when others walk out
- Walter Winchell
You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time is my friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A brother is a friend given by Nature.
- Jean Baptiste Legouve
A friend is one before whom I can think aloud.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me
does not consult his calendar.
- Robert Brault
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reward of virtue is virtue;
the only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Go oft to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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